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THE FIGHT

#4 February 26, 2021

Every day is a fight just to live – Hemingway knew

ROUND ONE – in the morning – surprise

How will I feel? Can I eat?

Out of the house before noon?

Will the electronics entrap and hypnotize?

ROUND TWO – more my style

Internal pressures are relieved

I go home – to school

Lead my charges to the track

Workouts, watches, details – they’re on their own

Hound the hurdlers, jounce to jumpers, turn to throwers

Too busy to think about losses, about mind losing control of body

Fighting to energize energy level popping

Got to keep my team happy and spirits high

ROUND THREE – starts the bringdown

Home now – empty house

Fetch dinner – wolf anything down

Fight to keep powerful machines off

Fight the loneliness

Lose the battle of creating, except on rare occasions

My love comes home from her day of utterly impossible nonstop stimuli

Lose the battle of communication

Alone, yet with her home

LAST ROUND– always the toughest

Sleep? Awake! Sleep? Awake!

Always pictures and thoughts omnipresent

A double edged sword of pain and pleasure

Missing some, while driving out the others

The loss seems so super charged

The heart wound still bleeds – more consternations and assaults on body

So, I have wars on all fronts – body, mind, soul

BUT, I STILL KEEP FIGHTING – NO CHOICE

PEACE OUT

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